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Synopsis: To
the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has
arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that
harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and
water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds,
some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads
and very sensible rainwear. Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys
hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank
his input is, of course, vital.. but largely dependent on words,
which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing.
However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from
Vetinari hard to refuse...

Synopsis: When
a young woman is found unconscious at the wheel of her car, evidence
at the scene suggests this was no ordinary crash. Especially when it
turns out her boyfriend is the son of the Scottish Justice Minister
and neither of them is willing to talk to the police. Meanwhile, John
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a big demotion and an even
larger chip on his shoulder. A new law has been passed allowing the
Scottish police to re-prosecute old crimes and a thirty-year-old case
is being reopened, with Rebus and his team from back then suspected of
corruption and worse...

Synopsis: Aged
thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely
absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life
apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family
of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his
mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him
of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws
him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide
between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store
where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the
painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous
circle...

Synopsis:
Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson
travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age,
took centre stage, and, in five eventful months, changed the world for
ever. In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a
president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest
of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four
giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a
devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and
a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer
wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth. (So
famous that Minnesota considered renaming itself after him.)...

Synopsis: When
she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was
sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as
a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the
Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to
America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never
to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next
fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching
for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son, renamed Michael
Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and a leading Republican
official in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But he was a gay man
in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality
but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left, he
returned to Ireland and the convent where he was born...

Synopsis: An
epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will
thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and
wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King
canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance,
the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible
experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep
picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in
rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must
save from a tribe of murderous paranormals...

Synopsis: The
previously personal untold story of the making of a young Commando and
SAS soldier in World War 2, from Sark to Stalag VIIA. On his death,
Sergeant H Stokes of 2 SAS left a journal that revealed what his life
had been like growing up in the shadow of approaching war, which
described what life was like operating behind enemy lines in France,
the Mediterranean and Italy. In August 1939, an 18 year old Stokey, as
he was known to his war-time comrades, left his home in Birmingham to
attend a two-week Territorial Army (TA) Camp in Devon, and in those
two-weeks he was mobilised when Hitler invaded Poland. This young TA
soldier would never put on civilian clothes for another six years.
This book charts his journey through 12 Commando, his move to the
Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and eventually on to the 2nd Special
Air Service (SAS), and his capture, escape, and recapture behind enemy
lines in Italy and Germany in 1944.

Synopsis: They
lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A
gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of
FATHERLAND. January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris,
an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain
Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand
spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!'. The officer is rewarded
with promotion: Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel
and put in command of 'the Statistical Section' - the shadowy
intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus. The spy,
meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is
shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devil's Island -
unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed
forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something
rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section...